That’s geek speak. It means that One-Two-Go is in serious trouble. I thought that it was too extreme for an airline to cease its operations for two months. On the same day as One-Two-Go planned to halt its service, the airline has been hit hard by a 30-day flight suspension.

Civil Aviation Department Director-General Chaisak Angkasuwan told a press conference, “All defects must be solved within 30 days. In case of negligence or incomplete action, the department can further suspend the service or revoke the licences. The department will file criminal suits against their pilots, inspectors and the companies in two weeks.”

Most interesting is this:

The department will also suspend the licences of One-Two-Go’s seven pilots - six Indonesians and one Venezuelan — due to false documentation. Two Thai pilots have also suspended for 30 days on a similar charge.

One-Two-Go will apparently come back as a regular airline — maybe.

A lot of people will be very happy with this news.

Full story on Nation.

There are only three budget airlines in Thailand: Nok Air, Air Asia and, of course, One-Two-Go. This week, One-Two-Go announced it will not go anywhere for 56 days, effective from this Tuesday. This news doesn’t come as too much of a shock. As Andrew spotted, One-Two-Go chief Udom Tatiprosongchai “told the Bangkok Post that he was seriously pondering whether to ground the airline temporarily on mounting cost pressures and a poor business outlook”.

This is bad news for anyone who travels within Thailand and it goes beyond just One-Two-Go. Nok Air has certainly been feeling the pressure, as have Air Asia and even “smooth as silk” Thai Airways.

The common complaint among all airlines is the rising cost of oil. Each of the airlines has been cutting back routes in an attempt to save money. I know that tourism in Thailand has taken a bit of a knock in recent weeks, with visitor numbers not as high as was anticipated.

For an airline to simply cease operations for two months is rather extreme. Coincidentally, in today’s Sunday Times there is an article about families of the victims of last year’s September 16 air crash, which saw 90 people killed when a One-Two-Go aircraft crash landed at Phuket International Airport.

Lawyers representing the families of the British and American victims are seeking £125 million in compensation, citing lax safety practices as responsible for the crash.

One-Two-Go has found it hard to weather the storm after the air crash last year and there is also a website, www.investigateudom.com, calling for a full-scale investigation into the airline and its CEO, Udom Tatiprosongchai.

There are a lot of damning accusations being made against One-Two-Go and this cessation of flights may be an indication that the airline is in serious trouble.

Christian Bale is John Connor. I love that they are focussing on the John Connor character rather than the machines. This will be fantastic.

Out of nowhere, a spokesman claiming to represent 11 separatist group from the Deep South has declared an end to the violence.

What. The. F***.

Any groups who do not comply with this newfound peace will be dealt with accordingly, said the spokesman.

“We want to see peace and stability in the region. All forms of attacks have come to an end,” he said.

These are strong words, but who the hell are these people claiming there is a ceasefire, which supposedly began on July 14?

The way I see it, violence has not ended. There have been attacks in the past few days. Gen Chetta Thachajaro is taking the credit for this “breakthrough”, but the whole scenario strikes me as rather odd. There is no word as to exactly why there is a ceasefire.

Surely a group of militants who have beheaded, burned and butchered innocents for years would not simply call it day and not have a strong reason for doing so. This makes them look weak.

More to the point, can one unknown group really speak for everyone in the Deep South?

Bangkok Post, Nation

Every time there’s a high-profile case of a crime committed against a foreigner in Thailand, there are calls to boycott the country. We saw it down here in Phuket when Swedish tourist Hanna Backlund was murdered. There were expats and random foreigners being very vocal about the knock-on effect that would be felt in the tourism industry.

The expat crowd in particular is good at rallying together when one of its own is hurt or murdered. It’s like a cycle, though. There’s a major crime, there’s an outcry, people call for a boycott, nobody listens and the whole saga is forgotten in a matter of weeks.

For a time, I thought that such high-profile murders as Hanna Backlund’s might have an impact on tourism, but I stand corrected. I honestly believe that nothing short of a large-scale natural disaster is enough to truly deter tourists from visiting Thailand.

Tourists just don’t care about jeopardizing their holiday plans for anything short of an all-out disaster, as happened with the 2004 tsunami. The latest call for a boycott of Thailand is Canadian Ernie Del Pinto, whose son was shot dead in Thailand about six months ago. A few publications have run this latest development in the story, but nothing will ultimately change. Canadians have been dropping like flies in recent months, so I don’t see what difference this will make.

This is the frustration that families and friends of murder victims in Thailand go through. Crimes go unsolved and there is little resolution. Justice seems so very far away — trapped beneath a pile of paperwork. It’s the families who I really feel for in these stories. They go to great lengths to search for justice, but it rarely comes.

Calling for a boycott of Thailand does little more than catch a few eyes. People say that it’s only a matter of time before tourists see the real Thailand and stop visiting the country, but this is nonsense. People will never stop visiting Thailand.

What would you do if you were in Ernie Del Pinto’s position?